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Virtue is insufficient temptation.
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love read more
The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong".
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect
others to be vicious.
[Lat., Nam read more
The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect
others to be vicious.
[Lat., Nam ut quisque est vir optimus, ita difficillime esse
alios improbos suspicatur.]
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure read more
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the restraints of conscience.
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the restraints of conscience.
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have
neighbors.
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have
neighbors.
